The NHS Dental Team will be visiting Brentford Family Hub on Tuesday, 18 February, between 09:30 and 14:00. Please share the poster below with your families. They can register via the QR code.

The Baby Room Conference is a free event aimed at baby room educators and nursery managers. The conference will help practitioners to better support emotionally sensitive interactions during settling. 

The London session is on Saturday, 8 March and further details can be found via the QR code in the flyer below.

Hounslow Council launched their brand-new Local Offer website in January 2025, which provides advice, guidance and support for professionals and families with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).  

You can view our Local Offer here.

We also provide parents/carers with the opportunity to speak to professional's face to face at our monthly SEND Surgeries. Our next SEND Surgery is Tuesday 11^th February at Feltham Assembly Hall from 11:30am to 1:30pm. You can find out more, including all the upcoming dates, here:

Please can share this information with your staff and parents/carers, including signposting to the Local Offer website from your setting’s website.

A gentle reminder for all settings that Section 12 of the Childcare Act 2006 requires local authorities to work with settings to update information on childcare provision at a minimum termly on 1 January, 1 April and 1 September.

The guidance specifies that information about Ofsted registered childcare should include, but not be limited to:

• the contact and location details,
• type of childcare provided,
• Ofsted rating,
• whether the provider offers free early years provision,
• the cost of the childcare,
• the time and duration of the childcare provided,
• the number and ages of children to whom childcare is provided.
• the suitability of the childcare for disabled children (Local Offer)

You will get reminders sent to you from Family Information Service to do this, but you do not have to wait for this. You can check your information at anytime and log in to make amendments.

Take a look today and let us know if anything needs updating.  https://fsd.hounslow.gov.uk/SynergyWeb/searchforchildcare.aspx

To make changes: either log in to your online account (the same one you use for your funding claims) or email us at fis@hounslow.gov.uk

To support early years settings to recruit and retain staff and meet this increased demand, from 3 March 2025 eligible educators will be able to access an experience-based route to working in the Staff:Child ratios at level 3.

This new route recognises the significant contribution that skilled and experienced staff can make to the education and care of young children. This is an opportunity for educators without currently approved qualifications to develop their careers and for providers to maximise the potential of their talented staff in a way that works best for the children in their care. The DfE have now published their consultation response to the Experienced based route for Early Years Practitioners. You can access this by clicking here.

In addition to this, they have announced the publication of the Early Years Teacher Degree Apprenticeship Standard.

This new, graduate-level qualification will give everyone from school leavers and junior staff to senior leaders the opportunity to easily move into a specialist career in the Early Years sector.